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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am looping through a file in bash and performing some operations on it. Here is the code.
cat test.dat -
One
Two
Three
Case 1: With if inside while loop
Output:
One
file found :)
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isn't it supposed to print following output !!!
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script that only works if I remove it from the looping scenario.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
i have a for loop statement in my ksh code. it only returns the first value retrieved not the value for the other rows.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
maybe you can help me.. what am i doing wrong?
Why this doesn`t work in ksh.
while
do
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read decision
if
then
doInstall
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i also tried this
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
It just does the break...even though the files are not the same...
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script which uses below for loop:
for (( i = 0 ; i <= 5; i++ ))
do
echo "Welcome $i times"
done
But when I run the script, it gives error message:
Syntex Error : Bad for loop variable
Can anyone guide to run it?
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